Category Archives: Enterprise

Verizon’s Role in the Enterprise Auction

By Mark Evans | Published: September 12, 2009
Here’s a guest post from an interested observer about the story behind Verizon’s interest – and opposition – to Avaya’s potential purchase of Nortel’s enterprise business. This post is entirely speculative as I have no better knowledge then any other reader about the enterprise sale, but here are my thoughts as to the sequence of [...]
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Telecom 2.0: The Next Generation of Enterprise Telecom

By Mark Evans | Published: September 2, 2009
Here’s a guest post by Jeff Wiener, president of telecom equipment reseller Digitcom, who also writes The Telecom Blog, on his outlook for the telecom equipment market. No, I don’t have a crystal ball but I wish that I did. I am looking at the next generation of telecom, and wondering where this rapidly evolving [...]
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The Power of the Press Release

By Mark Evans | Published: August 31, 2009
Last week, Jeff Wiener decided to write a letter to the U.S. Department of Justice to support the proposed deal between Avaya and Nortel. He wanted to write the DOJ after reading a Wall St. Journal story about how the DOJ had received verbal and written complaints citing competitive concerns if the deal is allowed [...]
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1,000 Jobs Cuts Coming in Enterprise

By Mark Evans | Published: August 10, 2009
While Mike Zafirovski’s departure as Nortel’s CEO captured the spotlight today, there’s also big news from the enterprise business. Joel Hackney, who heads up the enterprise business (at least for now given Mike Z. has left the house) said in a Webcast today that 1,000 enterprise jobs will be slashed by the end of Q3 [...]
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Enterprise Restructuring?

By Mark Evans | Published: August 4, 2009
With Nortel’s enterprise business on the block – Avaya’s got a $475-million “stalking horse” offer on the table – it looks like there’s some pre-sale restructuring happening amid speculation significant layoffs could happen within the next two weeks.
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A Sad Day for Canada

By Mark Evans | Published: July 20, 2009
With the firesale of Nortel now in full swing in the wake of Avaya’s bid for Nortel’s enterprise business, my friend, Jeff Wiener, has some thoughts at The Telecom Blog about what it means for Canada and its telecom and R&D sectors.
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